Healer Players Deserve More than Just Crumbs

I've ranted on this forum before in the past on the treatment of WHM and I'm sure we all are aware of the Healer Strike already.

But a lot of these changes in 7.1 feel SO lackluster. I just can't help but feel that healers are just never addressed past a superficial adjustment. How can Square expect people to keep going off of promises of change but never showing anything substantial?

I've already cancellled my sub despite raiding often and having a house in-game. I just don't want to be told to wait another 4 months to see healers given crumbs again. I guess we'll see in 8.0 if things can change for the better.

I don't think any of the devs play healer so they're kinda lost on what to do with it and also somehow haven't noticed how ridiculously powerful SCH is compared to SGE.

SCH and SGE are easily the two most imbalanced jobs that theoretically occupy the same niche within the party

SGE has literally zero niche because SCH is better than it at literally everything and SCH continues to have limitless value in ultimate prog through spreadlo and dissipation

It’s like they looked at SCH and took out everything that “felt bad” and didn’t realise that was everything savage and up raiders like about how strong SCH is. A SCH clone with no spreadlo, no dissipation and no expedient when all those exist on SCH is just a waste of class space

Well, SGE became the WHM of shield healers.

WHM is now an AST without cards and buffs.

They definitely have no one with any say who plays healer.
Otherwise, in the patch where they go after every spell applying their effect with a delay, they would have caught on the delay on both benediction and divine benison being forgotten.
hell you can see shield added after shadowbringer are applied instantly, whereas the early shield spells added before it apply 1-2s after they were casted.

And don't get me started on reducing the manacost when healer are at the point of using crafted hands and normal raid boots to avoid all possible piety.

you mean you aren't happy with all the healing change on tanks and we get nothing other then skill using less mp? I get it yes because I am like yay since endwalker we healers have been neglected and run through the mud and once more we are deeper into it -_- next expension they will just remove healer to have tank do the role >~>

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

SCH and SGE are easily the two most imbalanced jobs that theoretically occupy the same niche within the party

SGE has literally zero niche because SCH is better than it at literally everything and SCH continues to have limitless value in ultimate prog through spreadlo and dissipation

It’s like they looked at SCH and took out everything that “felt bad” and didn’t realise that was everything savage and up raiders like about how strong SCH is. A SCH clone with no spreadlo, no dissipation and no expedient when all those exist on SCH is just a waste of class space

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This wouldn't even be a problem, excluding the bland homogenization but that's par for the course at this point, if SGE did higher damage. The selfish DPS to the buff equivalent. Unfortunately, SCH spanks it all over the map and back. All SGE has going for it right now is it being piss easy to play. That's it. That's it niche. When the bar is new SMN. God lord...

Throwing my hat in to agree.

Healers get crumbs and they double down on tank sustain. Clearly this is the Tank expansion

They probably thought instant cast Esuna was going to be the pinnacle of healer gameplay because clearly we need to be able to move in the 1% of encounters that require removing a single debuff. I would have been more excited for Repose to be instant since functionally that would be a lot more useful.

Esuna change is nice and so are some of the other changes, but it truly is baffling. WHO asked for these changes? Why are these the changes being made when so many other healing mains have brought up their fair share of problems with individual healer jobs and the role overall. Dawntrail is the time for them to try new things and to really make decisive changes. It's absurd to think that people will still be here after four months of being paid dust.